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Yan Xia
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry

Stanford University
Office: Stauffer II
205
Phone: 650-723-9059
Email: yanx AT stanford.edu

Yan grew up in the older part of Beijing (which was very different from the bustling city now) and received his undergraduate degree from Peking University ('02) and MSc from McMaster University ('05). He obtained his PhD in 2010 from Caltech
, where he worked on cyclic and non-cyclic polymers under the tutelage of Professors Grubbs and Kornfield. Following his PhD, he worked at Dow Chemical as a senior chemist and then at MIT as a postdoc. He joined the chemistry faculty at Stanford in the summer of 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 despite all the chaos that year. His research interest is in polymer chemistry and organic/soft materials, tackling challenges with molecular designs and interdisciplinary approaches. He is a recipient of Terman Fellowship, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, and Sloan Research Fellowship.

CURRENT MEMBERS

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Dr. Xuyi Luo
Postdoc
PhD. Purdue ('22) 
B.S. Peking Univ ('17)

Project: REMAT
​NetID: xuyiluo


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Dr. Leoš Valenta
Postdoc
PhD. University of Zurich ('23) 
M.S. UCT Prague ('18)

Project: Mechanochemistry
​NetID: levale
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Dr. Ai He
Postdoc
PhD. 
University of Liverpool ('22) 
M.S. Zhejiang University ('17
)
Project: Membrane separation
​NetID: 
aihe
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Dr. Yong Min Kim
Postdoc
PhD. University of Seoul ('24) 
B.S. University of Seoul ('19) 
Project: Nonladder polymers
​NetID: yongmink
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​Ke Zheng
Graduate Student 
B.S. Tsinghua Univ. ('19)
Project: Nanocarbons (sp2 and sp3)
Net ID: zk570700
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Erica Flear
Graduate Student 
B.S. 
MIT ('20)
Project: Mechanochemistry
NetID: ejflear
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Zekun Ye
Graduate Student
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B.S. Peking University ('21)
Project: 
Microporous ladder polymers
NetID: zekunye
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Amy Su
Graduate Student Joint w Prof. Burns
B.S. Columbia (’22)
Project: fluoroladder
NetID: ajsu
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Vittal Bhat
Graduate Student
B.S. UNC Chapel Hill (’23)
Project: Mechanochemistry

Net ID: vittalb​
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Ruilin Yin
Graduate Student
B.S. UC Berkeley (’23)
Project: Microporous ladder polymers

Net ID: ryin10

Former Members

Kazuharu Murotani​, Visiting grad student from Osaka U (2024-25)
​Matias Horst, Ph.D. (2018-2024), postdoc at UCSF (DeGrado Lab), Website
​Ashley Robinson, Ph.D. (2019-2024), AFRL
Lydia Goedert, Undergraduate (2022-23)
Dylan Freas, Post-Doc (2022-2023), faculty at Bates College
Francesca Starvaggi, grad student (2020-2023)
Kayla Barker, Ph.D. (2018-2023), Loliware
Nagi Mizutani, Visiting grad student from U Tokyo (2022-2023)
JD Feist, Ph.D. (2017-2023), cofounder of Perseus
Hirogi Yokochi, Visiting grad student from Tokyo Tech (2022-2023)
Jinghui Yang, Ph.D. (2017-2022), Western Digital
Amy Laturski, grad student (2022)
Dan Lee, Post-Doc (2020-2022), cofounder of Perseus
Xianglin Yin, Post-Doc (2020-2022), Arcus
Christian Fengler, Visiting grad student from KIT (2022)
Jonathan Sklar,
Undergraduate (Class of 2021) - graduate student at Northwestern Univ.
Jessica Su,
Ph.D. (2015-2020), Align Technology
Holden Lai, Ph.D. (2015-2020), cofounder and CTO of Osmoses
Soyoung Lee, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at MIT
Karis Will, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at Harvard Univ.
Joe Ahn,
Post-Doc (2018-2019), Vertex​
Zexin (Henry) Jin, Ph.D. (2014-2019), faculty at Westlake University, Jin Lab
Junzhe (Robin) Lou, Ph.D. (2013-2019), postdoc at Harvard Univ (Mooney lab)
Xuejin Yang, Post-Doc (2017-2019) - Therapeutics
Yew Chin Teo, Ph.D. (2013-2018), A*STAR Singapore
Hiroaki Shimomoto, Visiting Professor (2018), Ehime University
Ben Elling, Ph.D. (2013-2018), faculty at Wesleyan University, Elling Lab
Mahmoud Abdulhamid, visiting grad student from KAUST (2018)
Lily Chen, MSc (2016-2018), Google
​Nicolo Zulaybar, Undergraduate (Class of 2018) - Stanford coterm
Zhixing Chen, Post-Doc (2016-2018), faculty at Peking University, Chen Lab
Jing Zhang, Post-Doc (2016-2017), faculty at Wuhan University
Takaaki Uno, joint Visiting scholar (2015-17) - JSR
Fang Liu, joint Post-Doc (2015-17) - faculty at Guangzhou Medical University
Omar Garcia, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - MD program, Stanford Medical School
Eri Gamo, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Victoria Nguyen,  Undergraduate (Class of 2015) - Genentech
Sheng Liu, Post-Doc (2013-15) - Dupont
Paulo Soares, MSE Masters Student (2014) - Schlumberger
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